c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems." — Rene Descartes
"L.A.'s cool I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor." — Shooter Jennings
"I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank." — John Major
"No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study." — Phillip E. Johnson
"I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces." — Tommy Lee Jones
"Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts." — Mick Jagger
"I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible." — Amy Grant
"Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat." — Neal Barnard
"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed." — Samuel Johnson
"Silence is a source of great strength." — Lao Tzu
"We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it." — Emma Thompson
"It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots." — Patti Stanger
"We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system." — Donna Shalala
"If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness." — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken." — David Herbert Lawrence
"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions." — Charles Dickens
"Every single soul is a poem." — Michael Franti
"I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused." — Barry Hannah
"The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users." — Mike Fitzpatrick
"People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward." — Matthew Bourne
"This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God." — Ray Comfort
"You only grow when you are alone." — Paul Newman
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries." — John Adams
"You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from." — Daphne Zuniga
"A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind." — Ronald Graham
"Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo." — Karl Barth
"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former." — William Shenstone
"Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it." — Waylon Jennings
"For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success." — Shania Twain
"I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing." — John Searle
"No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control." — Julie Burchill
"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men." — Thomas Fuller
"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character." — George Santayana
"Selfishness is the only real atheism unselfishness the only real religion." — Israel Zangwill
"There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past." — George Carlin
"People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite." — Taylor Caldwell
"When anything goes, it's women who lose." — Camille Paglia
"You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure." — Carlos Ghosn
"Forgiveness is the final form of love." — Reinhold Niebuhr
"We will not have peace by afterthought." — Norman Cousins
"War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else." — Smedley Butler
"I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can." — Kesha
"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment." — Honore de Balzac
"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'" — Gertrude Stein
"To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most." — Jenson Button
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"All religions have been made by men." — Napoleon Bonaparte
"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise." — Joan Rivers
"Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family." — Vartan Gregorian
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them." — Orison Swett Marden
"I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old." — David Hockney
"For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole." — Katy Perry
"I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant." — Gene Simmons
"It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis." — Michael Apted
"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that." — Arthur Ashe
"It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project." — Herbie Hancock
"You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away." — Ali Smith
"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions." — Lao Tzu
"Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men." — Marilyn Monroe
"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist." — Stewart Alsop
"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish." — John Keats
"Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work." — Warren G. Bennis
"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go." — Erma Bombeck
"Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover." — Kenny Loggins
"I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP." — Shia LaBeouf
"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change." — Andre Gide
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get." — Confucius
"I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control." — Yancy Butler
"Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide." — Ice Cube
"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination." — George Henry Lewes
"To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful." — Victor Hugo
"There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt." — Niccolo Machiavelli
"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions." — Samuel Johnson
"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency." — Theodore Roosevelt
"Music is hugely important to me." — Rashida Jones
"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room." — Mercedes McCambridge
"Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time." — J. J. Abrams
"I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me." — Drake
"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law." — Ayn Rand
"Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place." — Ben E. King
"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead." — Jean Cocteau
"An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself." — Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else." — Harry Lauder
"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!" — William Hazlitt
"When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous." — Katharine Hepburn
"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language." — William Osler
"Art is never finished, only abandoned." — Leonardo da Vinci
"My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength." — Antonio Gramsci
"The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas." — Jan Schakowsky
"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor." — Coco Chanel
"If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better." — Paula Cole
"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn." — Delmore Schwartz
"Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted." — John Ralston Saul
"Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place." — Russell Pearce
"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth." — Henry David Thoreau
"Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation." — Wilhelm Reich
"Every silver lining has a cloud." — Mary Kay Ash
"While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom." — Randy Forbes
"I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies." — Gordon Ramsay
"Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night." — Peter Ustinov
"My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'" — Carmen Electra
"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same." — Dan O'Brien
"I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary." — Bono
"One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age." — Jeff Bridges
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." — George Bernard Shaw
"The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace." — Nikita Khrushchev
"Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money." — J. Edgar Hoover
"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her." — Agatha Christie
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind." — Theodore Roosevelt
"The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated." — Desmond Tutu
"God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you." — Joel Osteen
"It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations." — James F. Byrnes
"Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?" — Jay-Z
"Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself." — Henri Nouwen
"Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know." — Eric Clapton
"Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage." — George W. Bush
"Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion." — Robert Plant
"People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine." — Robert Carlyle
"Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them." — Dick Van Dyke
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." — Yogi Berra
"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness." — Stendhal
"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder." — Joseph Wood Krutch
"Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him." — Ron Fournier
"The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down." — A. J. Liebling
"I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government." — Arnold Schwarzenegger
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." — Alan Watts
"I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam." — King Hussein I
"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." — Oswald Chambers
"I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part." — Eddie Van Halen
"It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts." — Roger Moore
"When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school." — Freddie Prinze, Jr.
"I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are." — Rashida Jones
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." — Nelson Mandela
"I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama." — Dianne Wiest
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." — Saint Augustine
"It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents." — Michael Symon
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." — Howard Aiken
"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science." — Louis Pasteur
"I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future." — Jude Law
"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." — Arthur Conan Doyle
"It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center." — Ellen Barkin
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality." — Yoko Ono
"No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part." — Tony Visconti
"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art." — William Bernbach
"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds." — R. D. Laing
"You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am." — Kim Kardashian
"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live." — Pope John Paul II
"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar." — Lao Tzu
"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished." — Mikhail Bakunin
"I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush." — Graham Hill
"A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice." — Samuel Johnson
"When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you." — Morris Chestnut
"We make war that we may live in peace." — Aristotle
"Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all." — Russell M. Nelson
"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve." — William Glasser
"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic." — David Attenborough
"I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father." — David Beckham
"I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end." — Pope John XXIII
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." — Abraham Lincoln
"I think I have always had a little humor." — Marilyn Monroe
"The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense." — William J. Clinton
"Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance." — John McCarthy
"God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone." — Ziggy Marley
"I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation." — Whoopi Goldberg
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure." — Bertrand Russell
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." — Baruch Spinoza
"I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries." — Jerry Saltz
"Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head." — Andy Cohen
"My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her." — Guy Johnson
"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone." — Baltasar Gracian
"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything." — Robert Frost
"Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success." — Louisa May Alcott
"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating." — Denis Waitley
"I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life." — Sinead O'Connor
"Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success." — Robert Orben
"I'd like to do a film which is funny." — Clive Owen
"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all." — Ogden Nash
"Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox." — Anna Howard Shaw
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten." — John F. Kennedy
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." — Earl Wilson
"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." — Clarence Darrow
"Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business." — Jeff Bridges
"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room." — Doug Coupland
"I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool." — Brittany Snow
"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul." — Michel de Montaigne
"My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better." — Anna Deavere Smith
"If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results." — George S. Patton
"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul." — Eugenio Montale
"Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance." — Vaclav Havel
"It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!" — Jordin Sparks
"Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them." — John Boehner
"Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care." — Dave Obey
"If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work." — Ogden Nash
"You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black." — Charles Barkley
"To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity." — Steven Brust
"A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all." — Washington Irving
"First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before." — Andre Agassi
"My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins." — Melanie Fiona
"Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery." — Erma Bombeck
"Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party." — Joan Crawford
"The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons." — David Sedaris
"If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store." — Michael Nutter
"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts." — David Bowie
"When you are happy you can forgive a great deal." — Princess Diana
"I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead." — Maurice Sendak
"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need." — Jerry Gillies
"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children." — Bill Cosby
"Football is a sad game." — George Best
"I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that." — Gina Gershon
"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto." — W. Clement Stone
"Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world." — Joanna Trollope
"They have hijacked my religion." — Cat Stevens
"I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny." — Chris O'Dowd
"I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it." — Peter Singer
"To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate." — Ariel Sharon
"I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street." — Suge Knight
"Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die." — Bill Cosby
"No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means." — Garrett Hardin
"We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." — W. Somerset Maugham
"I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time." — Mark Twain
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless." — Niccolo Machiavelli
"On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary." — Mindy Kaling
"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it." — Neil Young
"You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid." — Sugar Ray Robinson
"As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves." — Jan Schakowsky
"I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written." — Kesha
"Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise." — Martha Beck
"Happiness seems made to be shared." — Pierre Corneille
"The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!" — Sumner Redstone
"Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved." — Jacob Bronowski
"I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make." — Leif Garrett
"There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies." — Miroslav Vitous
"If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce." — Jay Weatherill
"They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground." — Toby Jones
"Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well." — Jonathan Carroll
"Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion." — Bernice Johnson Reagon
"Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way." — Doris Lessing
"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names." — Alice Walker
"I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming." — Linda Evans
"What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters." — Alfred Russel Wallace
"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people." — John D. Rockefeller
"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race." — Margaret Sanger
"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort." — Humphry Davy
"I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange." — Bobby Cannavale
"As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out." — Allen West
"Magic, like technology, is a tool." — Mercedes Lackey
"Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit." — Jennifer Lopez
"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning." — Thomas Jefferson
"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none." — Richard M. DeVos
"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something." — Woodrow Wilson
"Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question." — Jack White
"I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it." — Ben Elton
"I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so." — Stephen Harper
"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation." — Knut Hamsun
"My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill." — Thomas Friedman
"I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality." — Andrew Cuomo
"My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable." — Ian McShane
"Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views." — Dennis Prager
"Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world." — Tommy Douglas
"With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world." — Theodore C. Sorensen
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice." — Thomas Paine
"I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes." — William Hague
"And this is one way to do technology forecasting get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn." — Chris Anderson
"I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights." — Alan Autry
"I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience." — Tim McGraw
"In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans." — Solomon Ortiz
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked." — Lord Chesterfield
"The home is the chief school of human virtues." — William Ellery Channing
"I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh." — Jenny McCarthy
"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality." — Charles Lamb
"It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me." — Luke Perry
"Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it." — Ville Valo
"The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another." — Michael Mandelbaum
"Black history is American history." — Morgan Freeman
"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life." — P. D. James
"Sports life is very short." — Sergei Bubka
"90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world." — Colin Powell
"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary." — Gloria Steinem
"I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance." — Donald Trump
"I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage." — Stephen Harper
"But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels." — Dierks Bentley
"I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth." — Brian Eno
"Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough." — Donna Brazile
"I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard." — Luke Scott
"I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God." — Tim Tebow
"Our family life was certainly not intellectual." — Douglass North
"I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes." — Henry Rollins
"Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair." — Ira Gershwin
"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue." — Michael Pollan
"I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away." — John Hughes
"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course." — William Shakespeare
"When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not." — Anna Deavere Smith
"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business." — Henry David Thoreau
"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man." — Herbert Hoover
"Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless." — Suze Orman
"I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results." — Tipper Gore
"Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car." — Sophie Ellis-Bextor
"The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith." — Terry Eagleton
"I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had." — Terry Riley
"You can't legislate good will - that comes through education." — Malcolm X
"Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society." — A. Bartlett Giamatti
"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words." — Ruth St. Denis
"It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control." — Henry Charles Carey
"Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more." — Gwen Stefani
"You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot." — Victoria Pratt
"I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it." — Albert Brooks
"There is a woman at the begining of all great things." — Alphonse de Lamartine
"I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!" — Zac Efron
"I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture." — Sloane Crosley
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance." — David Herbert Lawrence
"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family." — Barbara Bush
"I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that." — Bear Bryant
"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance." — Eric Hoffer
"I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders." — Martin Mull
"My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!" — Jeff Foxworthy
"You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it." — Edward Coke
"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." — Dan Quayle
"My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear." — Anne Lamott
"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office." — Shirley MacLaine
"I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans." — Tom Allen
"Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf." — Herb Kohl
"I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences." — Shelby Lynne
"In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out." — Chinua Achebe
"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice." — Ambrose Bierce
"I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith." — Huston Smith
"The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy." — Vicente Fox
"What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age." — Michael Bloomberg